RE: Bugatti EB112 | The Road Not Taken
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GreatScott2016 said:
kambites said:
My word, it's even uglier than the original Porsche Panamera!
I'd go as far as to say that it's close to being the ugliest car I've ever seen. 
article said:
it’s notable how the V12 manual wasn’t taken on as a powertrain choice for luxury saloons going forward.
Here's another cancelled luxury sedan V12 manual, Mazda's Amati 1000
https://jalopnik.com/it-was-japan-s-most-daring-ca...
Jalopnik said:
“I was driving it with the windows down,” then-product planner and engineer Bob Hall told me over the phone, “and you’d have sworn there was a Ferrari two cars behind you. With the windows up... you couldn’t hear a f
king thing.”
king thing.”article said:
it’s notable how the V12 manual wasn’t taken on as a powertrain choice for luxury saloons going forward.
Then I think BMW’s project engineers of the 1989’s and 1990’s need a shout out as they designed and built an E32 project code named Goldfish which had a 6.7 litre V16 which was bolted to a manual gearbox so the ‘full power potential of the engine could be explored’ 
Surely the fact the Lotus Carlton made it to 177mph and this to 186, makes the Carllon far more remarkable, and yet is tossed off, airily, by a hack trying to conjure plaudits for what is one of the most revolting cars I've ever seen. More lazy, cliched writing.
EDIT Should have said given the car the Carlton was based on, and its compromises.
EDIT Should have said given the car the Carlton was based on, and its compromises.
Edited by Magikarp on Monday 7th August 23:45
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